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Public policy analysis is a field of research that focuses on systematically examining public sector decision-making processes and consequences. It is a subfield of political science that studies government agencies' creation, formulation, execution, and assessment of policies.

The Public Policy Analysis course aims to improve participants' analytical skills and decision-making abilities by providing them with a solid understanding of public policy analysis's fundamental concepts and theories, emphasising analytical methods and techniques used by analysts and policymakers.

This course also equips participants with tools for public policy analysis and introduces them to quantitative and qualitative data collecting methodologies.

It also gives them the chance to put these skills to use in a real-world case study and better grasp the difficulties that come with performing public policy analysis.

Participants will have a firm grasp of the many tools utilised by policymakers throughout the world after finishing this course and practical experience using these techniques in various case studies.

At the end of the Policy Analysis course, participants will be able to:

Improve their skills in developing and executing public policies and developing practical solutions that may be used to public policy initiatives or inside the company in which they work.
Create analytical frameworks for critical thinking when developing public policy.
Gain a firm grasp of quantitative tools and research methodology for undertaking evidence-based impact evaluations, as well as practical public policy communication skills.

Individuals want to use their expertise in evidence-based policy formulation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Program managers who want to improve their operations management abilities.
Project managers in charge of creating and implementing projects.
Those seeking to build or improve their public policy analysis abilities or improve the quality of their policy work.
Individuals that collaborate with governments and departments to enhance operations and priorities.

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5 days course

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The significance and goals of public policy

• Using game theory to analyze public policy.

• Understand the importance of public policy in society.

• Understand the significance of theoretical and empirical models in understanding public policy.

• Goals of public policy

• Recognizing market failures.

• Distinguishing between public and private goods.

Interactions between people and strategic interactions

• Determine the rationality assumption.

• Explain the concept of limited rationality and its importance in studying human behaviour.

• Explain the fundamental notions of balance.

• Be familiar with typical strategy games.

• Factors that contributed to the collapse of negotiating.

Institutions and public policy

• How businesses may respond to market failures.

• Fundamental institutional theory prerequisites

• Justifications for agency inactivity and evasion.

• Outlines the broad policy answers to the manager's and agent's challenges.

• Vertical and horizontal integration costs and advantages

• How institutions may solve issues of public policy.

Quantitative abilities in public policy

• Data analysis and description methods, as well as acquiring the fundamental logic underpinning statistical analysis

• Basic statistical ideas.

• Be familiar with probability distributions and the central limit theorem.

• The connection between statistical uncertainty and public policy.

• The significance of regression and its relationship to public policy issues.

• Apply statistical knowledge to interpret policy statements.

Evaluation of Public Policy

• Key concepts in effective assessment and experimental design.

• The fundamental difficulty of causal inference.

• Emphasize the significance of effect evaluation in public policy.

• Difficulties in performing impact evaluations.

• Evaluation of the experimental design to determine its impact.

Policy communication

• Practical knowledge and abilities for effective policy communication.

• Distinguish between different types of data visualization, such as spread charts and histograms.

• The utility of data visualizations in public policy messaging

Operations in public policy

• The policy cycle's stages and the political considerations that influence each step

• The significance of establishing the plan in public policy.

• Define the components of a multi-stream agenda-setting strategy.

• Differentiating between gradual and non-gradual policy decision-making.

• Common flaws in the process of implementing public policy.

• Examine the policy's influence on the evaluation process.

• Conduct research on strategies for each step of the policy cycle.

Accountability, representation, and public policy

• The significance of political representation and accountability.

• Recognizing the many kinds of political representation.

• Distinguishing between selection and approval in the context of electoral responsibility.

• Distinguishing between examples of vertical, horizontal, and societal responsibility.

• The influence of special interest groups on public policy.

• Criticism of anti-corruption policies.

Policies of public policy

• The influence of constitutional systems on public policy.

• The influence of election system disparities on public policy.

• The impact of the contrasts between the parliamentary and presidential systems on public policy.

• The impact of a veto player on the policy's result.

• Examining how electoral incentives influence government expenditures.

• Decentralization's impact.

• Assess the impact of institutional change on the result of public policy.

Government Policy Challenges

• Apply what you've learned in this course to real-world political scenarios.

• Policy solution comparison.

• Examining real-world political case studies

• Make public policy decisions based on the findings of the impact assessment.

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